To be annoyed at note through door asking us to clap

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Seriously, surely everyone knows about the clapping at this point and would do it if they wanted to/could?

I don't need a note through my door to make me feel crappy for not taking part. I thought at first it was a note asking if anyone needs assistance/shopping etc but nope, just a passive aggressive note thanking everyone for taking part and if those that haven't could join in this week. Eff that.

Don't get me wrong I applaud the NHS and keyworkers and have the upmost respect for them but I'm not clapping for my own practical reasons (getting baby to sleep is hard work, I'm not going to clap/bang pots just to wake them up again).

I'm not sure if it's my own attitude thats the problem or I'm rightly annoyed at people trying to guilt trip us into clapping. I don't need that, I've donated money and food in the last couple of weeks, I go out as little as possible (rarely), I'm doing my bit.

YANBU this clapping business is taking a sinister turn now

It really is.

Why can't you just ignore it, like you would if they posted a 'basketball tournament' invite through your door? Why do you think it's a guilt trip rather than an invite?

When gestures like this become coerced they lose all meaning.

Exactly. You'd have to live under a rock not to know that this is happening. So putting a note through isn't about informing people, it's about 'why didn't you do it last week?' or 'we want to video our street all clapping and put in on social media'.

No one is clapping in my area.

That would make me determined not to clap even if I had been planning to.

We clso for the nhs and key workers, we have a nurse next door she's lovely & working all hours right now , if you don't want to you don't have to that's it really , all this clap for.the kids rubbish is a bit much though imo ...

I live with a Paramedic and he didn’t want us to go outside and clap. I think now the clapping is for lots of different people he won’t mind as much. He said he doesn’t feel like a hero as he’s only doing the job he’s paid to do, although some decent PPE would make it easier!

Ffs no op youre not obliged weve had loads of threads about shaming of people not clapping its not an order its a thing

fed up of people telling others what to do

oh and twinkle fuck off

she's lovely & working all hours right now

So she probably won’t appreciate being woke up in the few hours that she gets a chance to sleep. I dare say the clapping, fireworks, horns blowing, whopping, etc, isn’t very conducive to sleep. 🤷‍♀️

What fucking idiot thinks the best thing to do in a viral pandemic is to go door to door posting pieces of paper through them and infecting every house in the fucking street??

I’d actually be calling them out for that on local FB/WhatsApp groups. How fucking stupid!

Oh God, it’s like those self-righteous people who judge others for forgetting to wear a poppy.

Or choosing not to wear a poppy...

Just ignore the ridiculous note from the ridiculous person.. Clapping every week and letting fireworks off,to frighten dogs and cats,is just too much.There was a guy in my village standing in the road playing a trumpet for the first clap night.

No more clapping please.

@Harakeke That wasn't a one off occassion either. There were many other applauses that became embarassing because no one wanted to be the first one to stop

Do you know who it was? This is very petty of me but I’d be really tempted to mess with them by putting endless passive aggressive notes through their door about not clapping to mess with them a little bit.

Ffs.I can't believe people are policing this.

Exactly.

If someone posted me a note telling me to clap, I wouldn't clap. Well not at my front door. I would stand proud and applaud at my back door. No need for public recognition - the sound of my clapping would be loud enough.

The clapping is nauseating and I don’t see how it helps tired NHS staff trying to get some shut eye before/after a shift. It’s self-indulgent, if anything. “Woo loook at us, we appreciate the NHS the most because we’re banging and woooing the loudest”. Ffs can’t we suggest people do something more helpful with their energy to show appreciation?

*Scrooge finishes

@Twinkle1208
One person's "sense of community" is another person's "sense of being coerced and shamed by a cheeky, nosey, self-important, virtue-signalling, busybody who needs to mind his/her own business".

Imagine if people were being peer-pressured into clapping for you; would you be touched?

We got a similar anonymous note last week.... my husband is a GP! Presumably the note writer hadn’t bothered learning that fact. So yeah, we didn’t clap because we both think it’s pointless virtue signalling and my husband is working hard and risking his life during this pandemic. One of his colleagues has already died from covid 19 and I’m worried sick about him. But we are apparently not doing enough to support the NHS! OP just ignore - there are some horrid, judgy and ignorant people out there

Tell them ( via note on door) that junk mail is a means of transfer of virus therefore to cease.

The only reason I can think of that note being useful is for people that are not on social media and without TV and other forms of internet.

My friend's neighbour is a nurse, she was really pissed off at being woken up by the clapping, fireworks and pots and pans shit.

Ignore the note OP. It’s obviously from a self-righteous busy body. I’ve got 2 little ones, who are asleep by 7pm. I’m not standing under the bedroom windows at 8pm clapping!! Even though the NHS is fabulous, I need time to work/cook/clean and do everything I don’t have time to do when they’re awake

As a health care worker, I agree with summer breeze, maybe I have just seen enough to make me cynical. Clapping at your front door will not, in any way improve the situation.